On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:06, Michael Schmitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>>>
>>> I???m trying now (using a cross compiler, to speed up testing).
>>> Sorry for not doing anything for a while, the ???air has left
>>> me??? (generally and due to lack of progress with m68k as one
>>> can only be the only fighter for ever so long).
>>>
>>
>> I can understand this, but I am very impressed by all the work you have
>> done
>> for m68k recently! Please don't give up.
>>
>
> I'll second this sentiment wholeheartedly. It's been good to see a fresh
> face injecting a lot of life into the project.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> But I was just told by a member of the Debian Kernel Team on
>>> IRC that the patches from m68k-v2.6.38 will (probably) not be
>>> accepted, unless they go in via Linus??? tree. How are chances
>>> of that happening? (He says they had told that years ago al-
>>> ready.) I???ll need at least the ARAnyM/NatFeat support and some
>>> of the bugfixes. Otherwise I fear this keeps getting obsolete
>>> very fast. ???
>>>
>>
>> As Geert wrote, almost all patches will make it into the official kernel
>> tree, only m68k usually needs them a little sooner. Is there no m68k DD
>> left
>> who works on the kernel? When I was still submitting patches, there never
>> was a problem, but I made sure that m68k patches only got applied to the
>> m68k tree. Of course, the smaller the patches, the better, and Geert was
>> very good with sending m68k patches upstream. In case you can not get
>> those
>> small patches in, I can give it a try (when I have a properly working DSL
>> again, and more time, so I can also set up crest and kullervo...).
>>
>
> At the very least, the Debian kernel maintainers ought to take a small patch
> to disable SLUB for m68k for as long as it takes to get this fix included
> via upstream and possibly backporting.
Not only for m68k. The parisc people are already making more noise about it ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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